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Dorothea Wefing
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Dorothea O'C. Wefing was the presiding judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, Part E. She was elevated to this division on September 1, 1993 and became presiding judge of Part E on September 1, 2004. She was appointed a judge on the Superior Court on January 19, 1984. She retired in October 2012.[1]
Wefing briefly served on the New Jersey Supreme Court as a temporary justice.
Education
Wefing received her bachelor's degree from Manhattanville College, and her J.D. from Seton Hall University.[2]
Temporary appointment to Supreme Court
In June 2011, Wefing was named an interim member of the New Jersey Supreme Court. She was appointed by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner to succeed Edwin Stern, who was appointed as a temporary justice in 2010. Though the appointment does not last for a determined amount of time, it is likely that a new full-time justice will not be appointed until March 2012.[3]
Political ideology
In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Wefing received a campaign finance score of 0.4, indicating a conservative ideological leaning. This was more conservative than the average score of 0.05 that justices received in New Jersey.
The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[4]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Newsmax, "NJ Top Court Adds Temporary Judges," September 5, 2012
- ↑ Martindale.com, "Judge Profile: Dorothea O'C. Wefing," accessed May 6, 2014
- ↑ The Star-Ledger, "Appellate judge appointed temporary N.J. Supreme Court justice," June 11, 2011
- ↑ Stanford University, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012
Federal courts:
Third Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of New Jersey • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of New Jersey
State courts:
New Jersey Supreme Court • New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division • New Jersey Superior Courts • New Jersey Municipal Courts • New Jersey Tax Court
State resources:
Courts in New Jersey • New Jersey judicial elections • Judicial selection in New Jersey
